Claim · model-written summary
Cytokinins decreased spermidine and spermine contents in isolated Cucumis sativus cotyledons in organ culture.
- Taxon
- Cucumis sativus
Cucumis sativuse1 - Material
- Gunture1
- Organ / stage
- cotyledonse1
- Treatment
- cytokinins (benzyladenine or benzyladenosine)e1
- Outcome
- spermidine and spermine contentse1
- Direction
- decreasede1
- Setting
- organ culturee1
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Verbatim
e1“The cytokinins (benzyladenine or benzyladenosine) decreased spermidine and spermine contents despite increasing putrescine content, when administered to isolated cotyledons of Cucumis sativus L. var. Guntur in organ culture”
Title
M R Suresh; P R Adiga Biochemical Journal 1978. doi:10.1042/bj1720185
Other claims from this paper (6)
- Intervention effect Cytokinins increased putrescine content in isolated Cucumis sativus cotyledons in organ culture.
- Intervention effect KCl decreased putrescine contents in isolated cucumber cotyledons.
- Intervention effect KCl marginally increased polyamine contents in isolated cucumber cotyledons.
- Intervention effect Cytokinins and/or KCl augmented nucleic acid biosynthesis and accumulation in isolated cucumber cotyledons.
- Intervention effect Cytokinins and/or KCl enhanced growth and differentiation of isolated cucumber cotyledons.
- Association In cucumber cotyledons, polyamine accumulation and growth are not always coupled.